All articles by John Hyde – Page 106
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NewsCounsel’s fee stripped back for claim settled two weeks before trial
Claimant had argued for small reduction on basis of ‘lost opportunity’ to take on other work.
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NewsTrainee solicitor prepares for Syria trip to help at refugee camps
Manchester-based lawyer gets ready for his second stint volunteering on the ground.
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NewsNews focus: Yorkshire law firm bucks trend and branches out
As tumbleweed blows through solicitors’ offices across the land, one firm keeps opening more of them. Launching a new branch ‘feels like a good news story’, says Ison Harrison
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NewsHigh-profile firm's owners forgo profits to invest in business
Profits increase at Thompsons Solicitors despite 'challenging' pandemic year.
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OpinionCheck in on your isolating colleagues - they may need it
For those of us in Covid jail, this has been a tough return to work. Don’t expect too much of them.
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NewsLawyers furious as judges demand proof of positive Covid tests
Reports emerge that advocates are being told to show they have tested positive if they want a remote hearing.
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NewsMishcon de Reya fined £232,500 over numerous AML failings
Firm agrees to pay one of the biggest ever SRA fines as it prepares to go public.
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NewsPart-time judges are working ‘on the cheap’, tribunal rules
Judges who ‘sit up’ in higher courts bring claims alleging that they are unfavourably treated compared with full-time colleagues.
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NewsLitigation funder ‘bypassed’ by divorce client seeks to recover £1m
Case to set aside consent order listed for four-day hearing later this year.
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NewsCoA denies flight compensation for delayed London connection
Lord Justice Coulson says allowing compensation would have had ‘profound’ effect on aviation industry.
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NewsFaultless SRA given top marks after review by oversight regulator
Solicitors’ regulator praised for its transparency, decision-making and accountability.
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NewsScotland set for non-lawyers to jointly own firms from 2022
Government authorises Law Society of Scotland to license new entities - so long as lawyers remain in control.
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NewsCPS admits discriminating against barrister but cleared of harassment
Senior prosecutor should have been given a reduced workload to alleviate his stress, the prosecution agency concedes.
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NewsTop-10 firm’s top earner receives £1.8m as profits soar
Further signs of a bumper pandemic year in the City as Norton Rose Fulbright reveals positive results all-round.
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NewsCreditors out of pocket after firm owing £1.3m sold in pre-pack deal
Alternative business structure folded after talks to join with accountancy business failed.
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NewsCourt stops Irwin Mitchell claiming £95k costs ‘shortfall’ from client
Judge says firm claimed for 'substantial amount of unreasonable time' on settled personal injury case.
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NewsFirm and owner fined for failing to complete undertakings
Tribunal says undertakings must be binding even if they are outside a solicitor’s control.
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NewsPublic like 'class actions' but think lawyers are biggest winners - poll
Majority of people would be willing to join group litigation against organisation or employer.
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News‘Obsession’: LiP ordered to end decade of negligence claims
Judge says the defendant lawyers should not have proceedings hanging over them after more than a decade.
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NewsSRA says solicitors embracing change as 400 go freelance
Research carried out to see how profession responded to reforms of two years ago.